Author Jean M. Twenge examines how smartphone and tablet access has impacted the "iGen" (those who grew up around these technologies), including its impact on loneliness, depression, sleep, and other aspects.
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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Machines Taught by Photos Learn a Sexist View of Women
A discussion around how gender bias can be proliferated through AI machines.
The Actual Science of James Damore's Google Memo
The science in Damore’s memo is still very much in play, and his analysis of its implications is at best politically naive and at worst dangerous. The memo is a species of discourse peculiar to politically polarized times: cherry-picking scientific evidence to support a preexisting point of view. It’s an exercise not in rational argument but in rhetorical point scoring. And a careful walk through the science proves it.
Please don't edit me out
An argument against human gene editing technology being used to edit out disabilities.
Rise of the racist robots – how AI is learning all our worst impulses
When we feed machines data that reflects our prejudices, they mimic them – from antisemitic chatbots to racially biased software. Does a horrifying future await people forced to live at the mercy of algorithms?
Scariest Thing About Cyberwarfare: No Rules of Engagement
Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber: How bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion
James Damore's Google Memo. The core arguments: Men and women have psychological differences that are a result of their underlying biology. Those differences make them differently suited to and interested in the work that is core to Google. Yet Google as a company is trying to create a technical, engineering, and leadership workforce with greater numbers of women than these differences can sustain, and it’s hurting the company. Anyone who tries to talk about that paradox gets silenced—which runs counter to Google’s stated goal of valuing and being friendly to difference.
With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference
Why Companies Like Uber Get Away With Bad Behavior
The ride-sharing giant was the subject of a withering report, but its values and its hard-driven C.E.O. remain in place.
The Secret Social Media Lives of Teenagers
Private groups - like the one used by students whose Harvard acceptances were recently rescinded - may offer a false sense of confidence.